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I don't see why they wouldn't.

I'm not exactly clear from the description, but in Hungary it seems despite it supporting the war parliament didn't vote for it and the king declared war on his own: https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/governments-parliaments_and_parties_hungary

Every bit as much as the British Parliament AFAIK.

Not sure to be honest. If he could beat the Magyar nobility and reform Hungary he would actually be viewed as a more forward thinking ruler IMHO, since he'd have expanded the franchise. Despite being an archconservative he wasn't stupid and realized there was no putting the genie back in the...

Sorry, we've been posting in so many threads with similar title I didn't see this one was about the Ausgleich starting the war. So yes, you'd be correct it would be possible to import provided Britain didn't decide to rat-f Germany. As to the rest though, withdrawing and abandoning all that...

Double monarchy, the Hungarians wouldn't appreciate being abandoned and they had half the soldiers in the empire. Speaking of which the Austrians would lose half their replacement pool at a minimum. Why would there be no British blockade in this scenario?

Accept the loss. No offensive, but your scenario isn't workable politically. Plus it doesn't factor in agriculture and food was short in WW1 too.

No he wanted to recentralize the monarchy, but that wasn't an option, so he went for the next best thing: break the Magyar nobility's lock on parliament. He could then expect the lower classes to be more willing to work with the Emperor's agenda. Yup, but FF was an archconservative like...

Bavaria broke off from November 1918 until May 1919 when reconquered and was begging for Allied recognition for some time. Infighting did them in before the Freikorps even got there. The German Revolution lasted for over 9 months...

Theoretically, but practically speaking given that Germany was in civil war and the navy mutinying and entire kingdoms were breaking off it was entirely impractical to restart the conflict for them. "Willing to allow" only if Germany surrendered her merchant fleet with no guarantee it would...

Thinking the war might be resumed doesn't necessarily mean they planned on it being resumed by Germany; given that they had already given up Rheinland bridgeheads to Allied armies they probably though that given the maintaining of the blockade the Allies might try to further strong arm Germany...

(y) Could be, I can't find any 'wastage' rates for horses for 1914 or really any part of the war, just general numbers about horse losses per year. Obviously those numbers are open to interpretation. That's a weird comparison to cite food supplies in an active war zone during the war to home...

It was from a German language book who's title I forget, but was a source for an English language book "The Kaiser's Army". It was commonly thought politics was what kept people out of the service, but more detailed study of army records showed that people were mixing up cause and effect. The...

True. Not exactly accurate. Given the size of the population, funding limits, and horse issue they could only conscript about 50% of the eligible class every year. That meant they focused on fitness, which given the health of the average urbanite at this time meant they were generally...

Somewhat, they really expanded literacy per their claims. That allowed them to indoctrinate more easily given that radios were few and far between for the average person. A lot of the time they were trying to play catchup with the czarist era given that many of the educated people have fled...

So just like the Soviets. Its a bloody awful way to fight, but it worked for Stalin and was less bloody in WW1 than WW2 when technology really made the killing machine work much more efficiently. Plus even with the rate of growth they had they were at a minimum going to reach the level that...

Agreed. Agreed. A-H would be purely defensively minded IMHO. This could theoretically prevent the worst of the A-H/Russian antagonism if they avoid the 1908 Bosnian situation. So war might be off the table entirely unless Russia opts to start it. I'm not 100% convinced of that. Russia was...

For scenario 1 or 2 yes, FF was very interested in playing hardball with the Hungarians and probably would have gone ahead with Plan U (written up under FJ), the invasion of Budapest and toppling of the Hungarian parliament to force a new constitution on them. That would have meant equal...